Put plainly: Tim Drake is just as likely to quit and stay quit as Bruce Wayne is to die and stay dead.
He's quit or threatened to quit several times before (from which he always comes back), some of which issue's covers were literally on the Jim Lee homage cover for this issue, which was also in itself a reference to a cover from a different superhero comic in which the hero quits for a civilian life and that hero absolutely comes back later.
small & soft, flesh & blood (carlos/alex, team 55 polycule, 8.4k, rated e, written for @motorsport-halloween fest!)
But even if he was under no illusion that Carlos would be clinging to Alex’s side like a rookie, Alex still wanted them to get on well—at least until, if JV was to be believed, 2026 or 2027, when they’d be able to make a proper fight of it. So when Carlos’s contract was announced, Alex made sure his was one of the first congratulatory texts in Carlos’s phone. And after Carlos’s appendix exploded in Jeddah, Alex helped him adjust his seat belts so they wouldn’t press up against his surgery site. And after the season ended, Alex added a copy of a book to his Amazon cart titled, Supernatural Coworkers: A Beginner’s Guide, and spent the first week of his break highlighting passages from the chapter on vampires.
So as far as I can tell Gavin Newsom has switched from having Very Serious Conversations with Steve Bannon on his podcast to, uh, doing 'this is what you sound like' Trump impressions on social media and bragging about how much better at Gerrymandering than the Texas GOP he's going to be?
Confused, at times, by the manner in which mocktails have made their way onto common restaurant menus. Don't get me wrong, I am very pleased that I can now go to a normal restaurant and order a fancy drink that is not alcoholic, but I am bewildered by the fact that these mocktails are priced the same way the cocktails are.
I thought we all knew and agreed that cocktails are expensive because they have expensive alcohol in them, and not because they are a fancy little drink designed to make alcohol not taste bad. A mocktail should be MAYBE a third the price of a cocktail and we all know it. And yet.
Texting photos to my boss from my personal phone by accident. He nearly got Instagram screenshot of Marc’s wiener dog. Pretty tame near workplace incident, 1/10
Managed to record this segment so enjoy Mario being introspective, to borrow a word from Mayers.
Transcript below the cut
[Stick hitting puck, goal horn sounds]
Pre-Recorded Announcer: SAP is putting the fan experience first. Through SAP insights and stats, we're bringing you closer to the Sharks than ever before. Let's go Beyond the Numbers.
Dan Rusanowsky: We go beyond the numbers with Sharks defenseman Mario Ferraro who has always had a reputation of being an outstanding defensive partner no matter who he plays with and how he adjusts to the way that his partner plays the game. I asked Mario in recent days whether that was something he took pride in.
Mario Ferraro: [slightly hoarse] It is, because I'm not putting up many points, I'm not doing the stuff like scoring goals and as much as I would like to and I try to get involved when I can that's not really what I'm doing every night, so I need something to have in my back pocket that I can bring consistently. And y'know I'm not the most perfect defender all the time either but I just, I try to work and I try to compete, I try to be aggressive on guys, finish checks, block shots, those little things.
And so I do take pride in that. Standing up for my teammates, like little stuff like that. May not show up on the score sheet but those are things that I hope — I hope people watching recognize it, I hope scouts recognize it, management, but most importantly I hope my teammates recognize that's what I take most pride in is that my teammates know who I am as a player and person.
DR: Well I think they do recognize that and y'know, it's one of the things that I think is his greatest strength. He is a really good teammate but he's also a very good defensive partner.
Jamal Mayers: Absolutely, and I think that hearing him say those things is important. Having those types of guys in a locker room that really bring people together, that are typically called glue guys, that do the right things and are team first type of players, you need that. That's how you establish good dressing rooms and good cultures, and very important to have guys like him in that room.
DR: One of the other strengths that Mario has is good communication. He talks on the ice. He talks to his linemates, his teammates, but he doesn't over do it either. He understands the balance of it and he's getting better at it as he continues his NHL career.
He's had good chemistry with his current partner, Tim Liljegren, and he talked about that and the value of communication on the ice.
MF: Yeah, I mean I love my — I love my teammates, we have a good time, that's why I lost my voice right now. In the last couple of days have been — we've had a tough schedule, we've had a lot of games. I took the opportunity to spend a lot of time with my teammates.
Something I'm trying to get better at too is when things aren't going well on the ice sometimes I let it affect me outside of the ice or outside the rink and I might isolate myself sometimes, so those are things that I try and consciously work on because it's so — what we do is so awesome and we should be so grateful for it, that you're gonna have off nights, it's gonna happen, but at the end of the day who we have, what we have and we have each other, that's the most special thing. So I'm just trying to, just been trying to enjoy that as much as I can.
I also don't have my — I actually lost my phone on this trip, I didn't lose it, I left it on the bus in Seattle by accident and it was gonna get shipped to Tampa Bay and then they delayed it so I'm like 'Y'know what, just send it to San Jose' and I feel so much better. I don't look at my phone and I'm just kind of in the moment and I feel like I'm connected more and communicating more with the people around me. So it's an interesting little unintended experiment that I have going on. But yeah, it's been nice.
DR: So maybe he's gonna leave his phone home for the next road trip because I think that's just an interesting fact about this current time away. That he's just been without a phone, not on social media, and he's talking to his teammates.
JM: Well what's his wife think of that?
DR: Oh, I'm sure she's thrilled.
JM: [Laughs] Well you know what, it's a nice social experiment for him to have to not have his phone. I think a few of us don't have our phones for several hours we get a little bit anxious. It's nice to hear him be a little bit more candid and honest about what he's experienced and it's kind of interesting to hear that.
DR: By the way there's an interesting strategy for you. 'Honey, I lost my phone.'
JM: [Laughing ]Yeah!
DR:[Also laughing] Could be something in the future there.
JM: 'Go buy a new one. Right now'
DR: Well that's what would happen exactly.
But Mario Ferraro leaving his phone on the bus in Seattle, and he's turned that negative into a positive, which I think is really cool.
JM: You know what, you see, I like the introspection that he gave in regard to, he becomes a little bit introverted when things aren't going well.
DR: Yeah
JM: And he consciously is aware that that's one of the things he does. I certainly was like that as well and I think that having the perspective that he has as an older guy will help other guys, like Macklin even or younger guys y'know like Will, leave the game at the rink and learn to enjoy it and not take it home all the time.
DR: SAP is putting the fan experience first, and with insights and stats calculated by SAP we connect you to 30 years of Sharks hockey as we go Beyond the Numbers.
